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Why do people still buy physical disks?

posted 10 years ago by Kylo_Ren
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Digital movies are cheaper to buy, they don't get scratched/lost/stolen/destroyed and will forever be in mint condition. THAT is much more bang for your buck, not to mention the extra bonus features you receive and the ability to watch it on any device you please (including your TV of course).

Why someone would pay more money for a disk that won't last forever and certainly not in mint condition, is terrible for the environment, has less bonus features and is restricted to one device only baffles me. It literally makes no sense.

[–] Sandoz 9 years ago

It actually sounds like you're A LOT older than 25 twice over, judging from the amount of your condescension. I was only pointing out to the OP that any form of storing a collection, whether it's physical media or digital files, can have drawbacks as well as pluses. I didn't think I had to be overly lecturing about it and mention the importance of also backing up data, but I guess I should have to please the anal retentives out their who would jump in to make a point of it.

And most people--people who aren't anal retentives anyway--don't back up their data on a daily or even weekly schedule, so some data inevitably will be lost when a main drive malfunctions. But I'm sure YOU back yours up constantly, don't you? Probably it's not all that's backed up for you either...

Can you dig it? I knew that you could!